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May 27, 2009
'In Obama World, it's always morning and the sun is shining'
Topics: Political News and commentariesJennifer Rubin points to Eugene Robinson's column which she suggests perfectly exemplifies the naive longing (of the Obama administration's "new dialogue with N.Korea and Iran") for some other reality than the one we face. Robinson writes:
In Obama World, it's always morning. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and the pollen count is low. In Cheney World, it's perpetual twilight. Somewhere in the distance, a lone wolf howls at the rising moon.To which Jennifer responds by saying that as much as Robinson and others might want it to be so, we don't live in "Obama World."
(By the way it isn't a lone wolf -- there are a bunch of them out there.) Iran doesn't yearn for peace with Israel; North Korea doesn't strive to make the "most improved" human rights list. Syria really isn't making moves to separate itself from Iran. It's a drag but in our world there are some dangerous characters who don't respond to empty gestures of goodwill. They simply aren't impressed when the American president touts his childhood experiences and denigrates his predecessors' assertions of American interests.As Jennifer notes in her closing, maybe John McCain is right (in believing that reality's going to hit the Obama Administration) and reality is going to hit the Obama administration. However, as she so aptly points out, the question remains: will the Obama administration even notice?At times the president seems to recognize some hard realities -- in Iraq and in Afghanistan for example. But he too often falls back on pablum -- "engaging the Islamic Republic of Iran" and insisting on moving ahead on a nonexistent peace process -- which is scarily divorced from factual data and requires we ignore or excuse the behavior of our foes. And when he, for example, trims our missile defense programs one has to wonder if he really is in his own world.
After all, just as Robinson suggests: In Obama world, "The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and the pollen count is low." My guess is that the reality will never dawn on them until it's too late for all of us.
(Read Jennifer Rubin's entire piece here.)
Posted by Hyscience at May 27, 2009 1:05 PM
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